Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today: 9th February

Punch

Troops of the Guards Brigade deployed to Mararaba, Nasarawa state for internal security operations arrested a man with arms and ammunition on Thursday during a stop and search operation at a military checkpoint.

Vanguard

PATANI – PRESIDENT emeritus of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, yesterday said he and other travellers along the Unenurhie axis of the East-West road, Delta State, escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen allegedly opened fire on them.

Thisday

Following the mounting resistance to the federal government’s proposal to establish cattle colonies as a panacea to the conflicts between herders of cattle and farmers that have led to several deaths in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said that the proposal was not meant to colonise any part of the country as widely alleged.

Daily Times

Group Managing Director of Honeywell Group Plc, Dr Oba Otudeko, on Thursday, appeared before a Federal High Court Lagos, to give evidence, in relation to a N5.5billion debt allegedly owed Ecobank Nigeria Plc.

Tribune

AARE Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams, on Thursday vowed that Yorubaland would resist any conspiracy aimed at killing its people at will, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently mandate security agents to arrest rampaging killers masquerading as herdsmen in the country and bring them to justice, to avoid a total breakdown of law and order.